Those figures shown were in 6" scale. I think Mattel does a good job of translating the 2-ups to production, but they do lose some quality with the paint job. It's inevitable when your talking about painting tens of thousands of action figures.

Maybe its because I already decided to buy or pass on all these characters in this scale already (DCDirect), but the only one I'm interested in in wave 1 is Metamorpho (and I would have him too if he hadn't been a Deluxe figure for 25$).